globaloney

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It's a recognised English word, but it isn't in the official NASPA Scrabble word list.

Scrabble points
16
Words With Friends
20
Letters
10
Pronunciation
/ˌɡləʊ.bəˈləʊ.niː/
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/ˌɡləʊ.bəˈləʊ.niː/ · /ˌɡloʊ.bəˈloʊ.ni/ · /ˌɡləʉ.bəˈləʉ.niː/ · /ˌɡlɐʉ.bəˈlɐʉ.niː/ · /ˌɡlo.bəˈlo.ni/ · /ˌɡloː.baˈloː.niː/

Definition of globaloney

1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. (US, uncountable)Absurd or nonsensical ideas or talk on global issues.
    “But much of what Mr. Wallace calls his global thinking is, no matter how you slice it, still “globaloney”.”
    “We must beware of any form of ‘globaloney’.”
    “–an outlook characterised by one senior State Department official as “messianic globaloney””
    “Stop supporting bums abroad. Stop all foreign aid, which is aid to banksters and their bonds and their export industries. Stop gloabaloney^([sic]), and let's solve our problems at home.”
    “Wendell Willkie's One World (1942), the epitome of “globaloney”, had sold a four million copies.”

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Etymology

Blend of global + baloney. Coined by American writer, politician, ambassador, journalist and anti-Communist activist Clare Boothe Luce in 1943 to disparage the recommendation of then-Vice President Henry Agard Wallace that airlines of the world be given free access to US airports.

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